Hydrogen Generator Designed For Use With Gas And Diesel Engines

ABSTRACT

The invention is a unit that produces Hydrogen Gas (Browns Gas (HHO)) that can be used as an assist to diesel and gas engines. The gas is produced from distilled water, using our stainless steel plate design. The patent should apply to the internal plate placement and design. The internal design of the unit allows it to produce significantly more hydrogen, drawing significantly less current or electricity from its power source. The internal design is in the placement of positive, negative and neutral plates to produce the gas.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 12/454,032, filedMay 11, 2009, the subject matter of which is incorporated herein byreference.

SUMMARY

The following presents a simplified summary of the disclosure in orderto provide a basic understanding to the reader. This summary is not anextensive overview of the disclosure and it does not identifykey/critical elements of the invention or delineate the scope of theinvention. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts disclosed hereinin a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description thatis presented later.

The present example provides an apparatus for generating hydrogencomprising: a battery; an airtight, watertight container housing atleast one cell; the cell a plurality of plates, each formed from asingle material, and each plate of the plurality of plates arranged inparallel to each other to form a row, the plurality of plates including;a positive plate having a first side and a second side connected to apositive terminal of the battery disposed at the center of the row; afirst double plate assembly having a first negative and a secondnegative plate having a spacing there between, connected to a negativeterminal of the battery and disposed at a first extreme end of the row ;a second double plate assembly having a first negative and a secondnegative plate having a spacing there between, connected to a negativeterminal of the battery and disposed at a second extreme end of the row;a first set of three one piece electrically isolated neutral platesdisposed between the first side of the positive plate and the firstdouble plate assembly; a second set of three one piece electricallyisolated neutral plates disposed between the second side of the positiveplate and the second double plate assembly; wherein water in anelectrolytic solution introduced into the cell is converted to hydrogengas for use in a gas or diesel combustion engine.

Many of the attendant features will be more readily appreciated as thesame becomes better understood by reference to the following detaileddescription considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present description will be better understood from the followingdetailed description read in light of the accompanying drawings,wherein:

FIG. 1 is a drawing of internal plate construction of the Hydrogen Unit.

FIG. 2 through 8 shows drawings used to construct the current unit.

FIG. 9 through 15 shows the plates that are used to make up the cellconstruction.

Like reference numerals are used to designate like parts in theaccompanying drawings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The invention is a unit that produces Hydrogen Gas (Browns Gas (HHO))that can be used as an assist to diesel and gasoline engines. The gas isproduced from distilled water, using our stainless steel plate design.The patent should apply to the internal plate placement and design. Theinternal design of the unit allows it to produce significantly morehydrogen, drawing significantly less current or electricity from itspower source. The internal design is in the placement of positive,negative and neutral plates to produce the gas.

The objective of our invention is to increase the efficiency of dieseland gasoline internal combustion engines. Our primary purpose is toenrich the air that is drawn thru the air filters, thus making it morecombustible and doing a better job of igniting the fuel in thecombustion chambers. Due to a better burning of the fuel; less fuel isneeded to do the same amount of work. That is where the efficiency comesfrom. We are just getting a better burn on the same fuel that is alreadybeing used, The hydrogen (HHO) is supplied to the engine along with itsnormal fuel and air. The engines efficiency is increased along withpower. The efficiency increase is in the 20-30 percent range. The enginealso emits fewer pollutants into the atmosphere as a result of burningthe hydrogen and less diesel or gasoline. The remaining exhaust iscleaner as there is a more complete burn of the fuel in the combustionchambers. The carbon footprint from most engines is from the result ofunburned fuel. As our process allows for a nearly 100% burn, we nearlyeliminate the carbon resulting from unburned fuels. The internal designof the unit is what we wish to patent. This design relates to plateplacement of positive, negative and neutral stainless steel plates.

To construct a unit you need a watertight, airtight container, we usestainless. The size of the container will vary depending on the numberof cells and size of the plates needed in the application. A cellconsists of a plate that will be connected to the positive terminal of a12-volt battery, two plates that will be connected to the negativeterminal of a 12-volt battery and several neutral plates. The neutralplates go between the positive and negative plates. The plate size andplacement will determine the amount of hydrogen produced. A cellconsists of 2 negative, 1 positive and six neutral plates. Place threeneutral plates on each side of the positive plate. Each cell has onepositive plate. The negative plates are double plates with 1/8 inchspacing. The plates must be insulated from each other and there shouldbe spacing between the sides of the container and the plates. Once theplates are in, place a cover on the container and seal it A gas outletthat a hose can be hooked to must be placed on the top of the container.Hooking a three-cell unit like is shown in the picture; to a 12 voltbattery will produce enough hydrogen (RHO) to give a fuel economyincrease of 20 to 30 percent increase to a diesel semi tractor. Thehydrogen (RHO) gas output is fed to the air intake of the engine.Consideration should be given to passing the gas through a devise suchas a water bubbler to prevent any possibility of a flash back from anengine backfire. The solution in the container consists of distilledwater with a teaspoon of potassium hydroxide. Regular tap water can beused but this tends to corrode the plates.

The attached pictures show a cell construction diagram along withpictures of how the unit is constructed and a prototype in use.

FIG. 1 is a drawing of internal plate construction of the Hydrogen Unit.The black lines represent the ground plates, the common grounds aredouble plates with 1/8 spacing between them. All ground plates arehooked to a single ground point. The blue lines show the neutral, orresistance plates. These are NOT hooked to any electrical potential;they become active as electricity passes through them on the way. Thered lines show the positive plates, each of which has its own powersource.

The above shows a 3-cell unit, named for the number of positive plates.Spacing and number of neutral plates has varied. Current spacing is on1/2 centers, with 3 neutral plates. The number of cells, along withplate size, varies with application.

FIG. 2 through 8 shows drawings used to construct the current unit.

FIG. 9 through 15 shows the plates that are used to make up the cellconstruction.

1. An apparatus for generating hydrogen comprising: a battery; anairtight, watertight container housing at least one cell; the cell aplurality of plates, each formed from a single material, and each plateof the plurality of plates arranged in parallel to each other to form arow, the plurality of plates including; a positive plate having a firstside and a second side connected to a positive terminal of the batterydisposed at the center of the row; a first double plate assembly havinga first negative and a second negative plate having a spacing therebetween, connected to a negative terminal of the battery and disposed ata first extreme end of the row ; a second double plate assembly having afirst negative and a second negative plate having a spacing therebetween, connected to a negative terminal of the battery and disposed ata second extreme end of the row; a first set of three one pieceelectrically isolated neutral plates disposed between the first side ofthe positive plate and the first double plate assembly; a second set ofthree one piece electrically isolated neutral plates disposed betweenthe second side of the positive plate and the second double plateassembly; wherein water in an electrolytic solution introduced into thecell is converted to hydrogen gas for use in a gas or diesel combustionengine.
 2. The apparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 1, in whichthe electrolytic solution is water mixed with potassium hydroxide. 3.The apparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 1, in which the positiveplate is stainless steel.
 4. The apparatus for generating hydrogen ofclaim 1, in which the negative plate is stainless steel.
 5. Theapparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 1, in which the neutral plateis stainless steel.
 6. The apparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 1,in which the negative second and third plate are perforated.
 7. Theapparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 6, in which the perforationsare circular.
 8. The apparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 1, inwhich the spacing of 0.125 inches is maintained by a plurality of bossesdisposed in at least one of the plates.
 9. The apparatus for generatinghydrogen of claim 1, further comprising a water bubbler to preventflashback from an engine backfire.
 10. The apparatus for generatinghydrogen of claim 1, in which the neutral plates are spaced one halfinch from each other.
 11. The apparatus for generating hydrogen of claim1, in which the airtight, watertight container housing contains threecells.
 12. The apparatus for generating hydrogen of claim 1, in whichthe neutral plate is formed from a single piece of stainless steel andis not connected to ground, and is not connected to the positive batteryterminal.
 13. A Browns gas generator comprising: a container means forproviding a an enclosure; and at least one cell disposed in thecontainer means including; a positive plate means for coupling to apositive battery terminal; a negative plate means for coupling to acommon ground; a plurality of neutral plate means for electricalactivation when electricity passes through them.
 14. A method ofhydrogen gas generation comprising: filling an enclosed container withan electrolyte solution; disposing an at least one cell in the enclosedcontainer; passing a dc current through the at least one cell, where theat least one cell includes; a positive solid metal plate having a firstside and a second side disposed in a box and electrically isolated fromthe box; two sets of three neutral solid stainless steel plates with afirst set of the two sets of three neutral plates disposed on the firstside of the positive stainless steel plate, and a second set of the twosets of three neutral plates disposed on the second side of the positivestainless steel plate, with each of the three plates in each of the twosets of neutral plates electrically isolated from every other plate; andtwo sets of two ground plates wherein each plate in the set of twoground plates is separated from the other by a fixed distance, and eachplate in the set of two ground plates is electrically coupled;generating hydrogen gas from the circuit formed the cell and theelectrolyte solution; collecting the hydrogen gas; and injecting the gasin a manifold of an internal combustion engine to increase itsefficiency and reduce its carbon emissions.
 15. The method of hydrogengas generation of claim 14 further comprising bubbling the hydrogen gasthrough a bubbler to prevent flashback.
 16. The method of hydrogen gasgeneration of claim 14 in which each plate of the two sets of groundplates has circular apertures disposed therein.
 17. The method ofhydrogen gas generation of claim 14, in which the electrolyte solutionis potassium hydroxide.